Posted on 07/22/2017 9:35:50 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
Officials in the Trump administration's State Department are standing by a recent report criticized by Congress that blamed Israel for terror attacks and claimed Palestinians rarely incite violence, telling the Washington Free Beacon that it remains unclear why terrorists engage in violent acts.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.), co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, criticized the State Department Thursday for releasing a report portraying Israel as the culprit in terrorism and downplaying Palestinian incitement of violent acts against the Jewish state, the Free Beacon first reported.
Roskam demanded the State Department alter its report to bring it more in line with what he believes are the facts on the ground—that Palestinian leaders routinely incite violence against Israel, which has been forced to defend itself against a growing wave of terror attacks on Jewish citizens.
A State Department official, speaking on background, defended the report's conclusions and said that it cannot precisely pinpoint the motivations behind Palestinian terror attacks on Israel.
"We recognize that in any community, a combination of risk factors can come together to create a higher risk of radicalization to violence," the official said. "There is no one single pathway to violence—each individual's path to terrorism is personalized, with certain commonalities. Therefore, it is difficult to pinpoint precisely what the sources of radicalization to violence are. What could drive someone to violence in one instance could vary significantly with someone else who is similarly situated."
The State Department's response prompted a fierce backlash among U.S. officials and Trump administration insiders, who said the State Department under the leadership of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has gone rogue and is out of line with the White House's position on a range of sensitive diplomatic issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.
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The Obama/Kerry/Clinton holdovers need to be told -
Your services (what little is left of them) are no longer required!
Islam
I have trouble believing that all of us on FR know what motivates the Palestinians, but the State Dept. doesn’t.
Amazing statement on the part of State Dept. Why is Tillerson not cleaning house...
Should bring in ServiceMaster for heavy duty deep clean!
Tillerson believes in modrate muslims so is it any wonder that problems in the ME are the Israelis fault?
Heather Nauert, former near brain dead FOX hostest/new reader/now near brain dead State Deptment spokes gal.
Good that came out of the shooting is Israel gained control of the 7th century tourist attraction at the Temple Mount from the Jordanian Waqf.
IF this is Tillerson’s view that there are moderate muslims (esp. in ME), it is surprising that he would have been chosen as head of State Dept! That said, this report would seem supportive of that view :(
Given her outfit, “Heather Nauert, former near brain dead FOX hostess/news reader/now near brain dead State Department spokes gal” does not appear to have been hired for her mental abilities...
Glad Israel acted in wise fashion with metal detectors!
Anyone who worked on or wrote this report has to be fired as incompetent
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/272488.pdf
445 pages...probably a whole lot of people, tho no one is specifically taking “credit” for this travesty!
“IF this is Tillerson’s view ...”
He has repeatedly said it is and is also the view of Nat. Sec. Advisor, H.R. McMasters, aka the Brain.
Makes some sense in the ME political mess of musselmen, but is long tern, that view is a strategy for defeat by Islam.
All, like Sessions, good picks on the surface, but bad for the country in the long term IMHO.
Another mystery, like why did America drop atomic bombs on Japan? Some things we’ll just never get the answers to. /sarc
Exactly.
This page shows over 156K grants - not sure what the dollars represent - some folks are getting big bucks
It would be better to eliminate the State Dept than to have it filled with enemy agents.
Tillerson should fire them all, and start over!
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Have they reached a consensus on the colour o’ shyte yet?
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Yes, this is the Trump/Tillerson State Department. To those in denial, go ahead, pretend it's Obama holdovers.
This is very upsetting.... any elucidation welcome.
Yet, once again, no named source. Treat as fake news til you see actual names.
Amazing after six months you guys still can’t recognize fake news.
Hint: If there is no named source, it’s fake. The goal is to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters. PERIOD.
Dude, you have to quit coming to me. I’ve trained you how to spot fake news.
1. Do you see any named source?
2. Rinse and repeat.
There you are....... been looking for you today.
The cheese/maze, deception war I saw clearly today, after the 6mo deadlines. I’m wondering about a near cabinet dump and replace, and suddenly I feel hopeful again.
Close down the State Department completely, and reopen some other form of it with entirely new, fresh, clear, logical, commonsensical minds if that’s what it takes to remove this embarrassment from association with our country, our government.
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